RE: Re: New Media Server....What about Mac based?!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the unit I use...

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=462&cat=9
4&page=1

or

http://tinyurl.com/a8tfn

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> noel_pilot
> Sent: 05 December 2005 21:27
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: New Media Server....What about Mac based?!
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> Thanks Phil, any links to the external drive holders you are using!?
> Cheers
> Noel
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@a...>
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> > > Is there any way I could go about using a Mac as a media
server i.e.
> > > some kind of external drive holder that could connect to the
Mac?  Im
> > > looking for capacity for 8 drives, if I go pc  based it will
be with
> > > one of the rocketraid cards but i'd love to be able to
abandon the pc
> > > idea and do it with say a mac mini and some kind of sata
drive
> holder!!
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> > At the moment I'm using a Mac Mini (borrowed) as my main
fileserver for
> > media and documents. I have 3 x 8 bay firewire to IDE enclosures
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> > holding about 3Tb of drives (almost full).
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> > Firewire on a Mac works - under Windows and Linux it works most
of
> the time
> > (which basically means it can't be relied on and so "doesn't
work")
> >
> > Phil
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